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Any IT degree program needs to have at least 50% of its courses in logic, circuits, programming, design and database management, and the math courses that go with them. That said, the soft, "office" skills still need to be taught. Management, psychology, sociology are for dealing with people. Finance, marketing, information management, even library science are rounding courses that should be oriented to get budding I.T. workers to understand how their skills will be used and integrated into the rest of the world. Of course, you could also break it down with the hard sciences and tech taught at the 4 year level, and the soft skills taught at the Master's level for those who need to be supervisors and managers.
Basic problem solving skills need to be taught. Not sure how things are in the UK, but I see a serious lack of critical thinking and problem solving skills in some of the younger IT crowd.
I may not be as technically skilled, but I know how to work my way through a problem, research it, come up with a theory, and find a solution for that theory. I may not always come up with the right theory, but I can learn something from the failure and move on.
I see a lot of trying one thing, and then giving up, and no research into the problem. Search engines are my best friend.
I do wish I had better programming skills, but I'm pretty much self-taught, and never had any computer classes until my senior year in highschool. The one thing I learned way back from college and still use today, are my old DOS commands that I use to write .bat files.
I may not be as technically skilled, but I know how to work my way through a problem, research it, come up with a theory, and find a solution for that theory. I may not always come up with the right theory, but I can learn something from the failure and move on.
I see a lot of trying one thing, and then giving up, and no research into the problem. Search engines are my best friend.
I do wish I had better programming skills, but I'm pretty much self-taught, and never had any computer classes until my senior year in highschool. The one thing I learned way back from college and still use today, are my old DOS commands that I use to write .bat files.
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